Varun and Amelia

What I Learned: About Marriage From Rubbermaid Storage Boxes

“What I Learned” is a guest post series of readers telling their personal stories about lessons they have learned about relationships in hopes of helping us all grow and cherish the relationships that matter the most to us. If you would like to submit a story for this series, click here. This guest post is by Amelia Rana.

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“Where you will go I will go. Where you lodge, I lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God, my God”. I clasped my new husband Varun’s hands tightly, not knowing where our journey together would lead, but certain I wanted to go with him. As we jetted off to our honeymoon, we brought two suitcases filled with all we would need for wedded bliss: sunscreen, lingerie, a few books, love, and anticipation for the future.

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What 75 years of Marriage looks like [Video]

Meet Ray and Irma Ziff, who have been married for 75 years. What is their secret to staying married for so long? “Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight it out.”

Watch this great interview that Ray and Irma did with Yakov Smirnoff (they also did a similar interview with Jay Leno). It gives me great hope and inspiration to see a couple married for so long and still in love with each other.

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What I Learned: From my Summer Father

“What I Learned” is a guest post series of readers telling their personal stories about lessons they have learned about relationships in hopes of helping us all grow and cherish the relationships that matter the most to us. If you would like to submit a story for this series, click here. This guest post is by Paul Sohn.

fa·ther [fah-ther]

1. [noun]  a role model who gives the gifts of guidance and wisdom while learning how to stretch his ability to love beyond what he knew was possible.

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Taking a Sabbatical to Focus your Career and Calling

Taking a Sabbatical to Focus your Career and Calling

 [This is a preview of a guest post I wrote for Paul Sohn’s blog, Salt + Light. Paul writes to equip readers with edifying, stimulating, biblical, and robust ideas and perspectives on people, change, leadership, and the Christian life on his blog.]

If you’re a young professional, taking a Sabbatical is a crucial part of growing your career and focusing your calling in life. What is a Sabbatical? It is an extended rest from work, or a hiatus, in order to achieve something.

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